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CHICAGO-Plans for organizing Chica -go-area participation in the April 25 mobilization in Washington, D.C., got a big boost as over 100 activists met here on Jan. 24 to form the Chicago April Mobilization Coalition.
The call for the formation of this new coalition was initiated by the Chicago October 25th Coalition, an umbrella group that organized a regional Midwest antiwar demonstration of 2000 people last fall.
Encouraged by the success of the local fall demonstration and the breadth of the national endorsers of the April mobili -zation, several prominent local religious and labor figures joined with the October 25th Coalition in issuing a letter urging Chicago area activists to support the themes of the national spring march and rally.
Among the signers of this letter were Rev. Clyde H. Brooks, president of the Chicago Metropolitan Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Council; Rev. Willie Barrow, national executive director of Operation PUSH; Noel Beasley, Committee on Central America have been elected co-chairs of the coalition, and work committees have begun meeting on a regular basis.
For more information, contact the Chicago April Mobilization Coalition at 343 S. Dearborn Street, Room 1113, Chi -cago, IL 60604. Phone: (312) 663-1227